Toffs alive and well

Decades ago world cricket used to be run by a bunch of English toffs meeting at Lord’s, but their progeny are alive and well in Australia. Only the well-to-do could have afforded to pay $250 a head (or $2500 for a table of 10) to hear Indian batsman Rahul Dravid deliver the Bradman Oration in Canberra tonight. The annual black tie event is presented by Cricket Australia. It would be interesting to know why drinks, dinner and singers warbling the hits of the Andrews Sisters (!) should have cost so much. Maybe it was designed to keep the great unwashed out.